I know the topic of tone mapping has been discussed several times and I thought there was a tutorial somewhere. Can anyone find the link please? I've looked and sadly can't find it.
If using a single image, create 3 to 5 copies of varying exposure, such as -2EV, -1EV, 0EV, +1EV and +2EV (if needed - can be done with 3 exposures), or use several exposure shots taken using bracketing.
Open Photomatix, generate, Browse, find the 3 to 5 images saved, you may get a prompt to manually enter the EV values, then generate HDR. Once done, it will look pretty wild on screen, but use the drop-down and select tone mapping.
Start with the defaults, being careful with the strength, light smoothing, and luminosity. Play, have fun.
Then when satisfied, save as, choose 8-bit jpeg or 16-bit tiff, then open that in Photoshop for final editing.
Wow, that looks like a nice piece of software. Here is a simple question for anyone who has used it. Aside from braketing with multiple exposures taken, is it feasible (assuming your original exposure is one the money) if you shoot raw to adjust the exposure in your raw converter and save off 3+ files to use with Photomatix?
Wow, that looks like a nice piece of software. Here is a simple question for anyone who has used it. Aside from braketing with multiple exposures taken, is it feasible (assuming your original exposure is one the money) if you shoot raw to adjust the exposure in your raw converter and save off 3+ files to use with Photomatix?
That does work and it is the only way to do "multiple exposures" under Advanced editing. The key being that you use just one image from the camera.
You do get good results from just using Tone Mapping on single image. I do believe that this has been deemed legal even under Basic editing rules.
Wow, that looks like a nice piece of software. Here is a simple question for anyone who has used it. Aside from braketing with multiple exposures taken, is it feasible (assuming your original exposure is one the money) if you shoot raw to adjust the exposure in your raw converter and save off 3+ files to use with Photomatix?
Read up 6 posts - yes.
One image, varying EV values, saved for web and renaming it Filexxxxx+0.jpg, Filexxxxx+1.jpg, Filexxxxx+2.jpg, Filexxxxx-1.jpg, Filexxxxx-1.jpg and then compiling them in Photomatix's HDR, then when done, going into Photomatix's HDR, drop-down to tone mapping, then more play time...
Wow, that looks like a nice piece of software. Here is a simple question for anyone who has used it. Aside from braketing with multiple exposures taken, is it feasible (assuming your original exposure is one the money) if you shoot raw to adjust the exposure in your raw converter and save off 3+ files to use with Photomatix?
Read up 6 posts - yes.
One image, varying EV values, saved for web and renaming it Filexxxxx+0.jpg, Filexxxxx+1.jpg, Filexxxxx+2.jpg, Filexxxxx-1.jpg, Filexxxxx-1.jpg and then compiling them in Photomatix's HDR, then when done, going into Photomatix's HDR, drop-down to tone mapping, then more play time...
I would recommend saving them off as tiffs rather than jpgs.
I would recommend saving them off as tiffs rather than jpgs.
tiffs - yeah - probably better as they are without compression. When generating the HDR, it can create the final output as an 8-bit jpeg or a 16-bit tiff, so why not.
I'm just so used to editing in what the final output mode it will be seen as, I rarely go to anything above an 8-bit jpeg.
